. >> my wife is from ligon chaim france tomalin was ty at texas university and she was probably the most a political person in the world. i did have her read my book and got a shield of approval but you won't see her out there any time soon. she's one of these people that i think likes to sit back and take in information and act on a more quiet manner. >> you talk about one of your first dates friends invited you over to see. >> a friend of mine was a big friend guess who's coming to dinner was one of his movies and she was relatively new to the country. she just arrived in texas for her semester abroad so we watched the film and afterwards she approached me and wanted to know what the fuss was all about because the movie talks about sydney as the young white girl and how her family handled that and in fact i use a quote from the main character in that movie, isabel samford played the character and how civil rights is one thing that this is something entirely different and believe me even today she didn't understand it and that was so refreshing to me and i think i was an expert on ameri